A group of slightly younger researchers gathered around Academician Nie, who was working in East and served as the head of the visiting delegation, to inquire about the situation of ITER, "Nie Lao, can you tell us why the International Thermonuclear Reactor Program will pile up the real Yàn in France?

"You're asking the right question!" As an elder, Academician Nie also likes to teach these young people some life lessons, "The International Thermal Verification Yàn Fusion Reactor Program was first proposed in 1985, and its founding participating countries are 15 member states of the European Union, as well as Canada, Russia and Neon, and the United States first joined and withdrew in 98, and only rejoined in 03, and our country also officially participated in the negotiations in 03Said ° Net's account. The site selection of the test reactor was a matter that began in 01, when the United States was not a member state, so it did not participate in the competition for the site selection, and the United States already had more real yàn piles, I am afraid that even if they were in the organization at that time, they would not necessarily be interested in putting the real yàn piles in the United States. ”

"Initially, there were four countries in the competition: France, Neon, Spain and Lucia. Academician Nie took a sip of water and moistened his throat and continued, "Among them, Spain and Lucia have withdrawn one after another for various reasons, and the village of Rokusho in Aomori Prefecture proposed by Neon and Cadarache near Marseille proposed by France have become the final two candidates!"

Neon's reason is that the village of Rokusho is very close to the port, which is convenient for the transportation of facilities, and there is a base of the Mi army nearby, so safety is not a problem, and colleagues are willing to provide 30% of the funding for the plan, and the United States and South Korea have expressed their support for this plan; The level of management is high, so Kadarasher should be the first choice, and our country, the European Union, and Lucia support this plan! The whole organization has a fierce contention!" As a participant in this incident, Academician Nie remembers these details very clearly.

"The controversy went on until '05. The EU first lost patience, they announced that no matter who wins this competition, they will build a real yàn pile in Kadarasher, coupled with the small bush president of the United States believes that the United States cannot get out of the quagmire of war in Iraq without the support of the European Union, so the United States announced that it will abandon its support for Neon. Attitude shifted to neutrality. Neon has lost its biggest backer, and it can't compete with France by relying solely on its own strength and South Korea's, so it has no choice but to announce its conditional support for Kadarasher!" Speaking of this, Academician Nie shook his head, "I've been arguing for so long about just one location, and I don't know when I want to wait until the research is successful!"

"What conditions did Neon put forward in the end?" someone continued to ask, and I had to say that Academician Nie's storytelling level was good, and they couldn't stop listening to it.

"They demanded 20% of ITER's jobs, and at the same time won a lot of contracts for the supply of raw materials, while reducing their own proportion of expenses to 10%, so ITER's final funding allocation plan was that the EU would bear 40% of the total construction cost of 4.6 billion euros, and the remaining 60% would be shared by France, United States, Neon, South Korea, Lucia and us with 10% each" Ma Yang, who was on the fringes of the crowd here, couldn't help but shake his head. This amount of funding is far worse than Xihe's plan, and even Xihe's plan is less than a year's funding, so if they lose to ITER in this case, they won't be able to see anyone!

"Alright, boarding has begun, let's get on the plane first!" interrupted the lively discussion with the boarding notice on the radio, and the group boarded the flight to Marseille with their luggage.

After a long flight, the plane finally landed at Marseille Provence airport, and due to the fatigue of the journey, the staff who came to meet them took them to a hotel for a night's rest. The next day, we set off again for Kadarashe.

Along the way, there were occasional complaints that they didn't have time to taste the food of Marseille, but more of them were curious about the controllable fusion reactor that they considered to be the largest investment, and of course this is what they thought would be a double quotation mark here in Mayan.

Cadarache belongs to the Rhône estuary department in southeastern France. Located 60 kilometres northeast of Marseille and formerly home to the headquarters of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), it employs 2,300 French Atomic Energy Commission staff and 860 related personnel, and before the ITER project was launched, it spent around 400 million euros a year on research, a name that the average person may not have heard. But in the minds of these scientists, they are as famous as those in Geneva, Switzerland, and in the small town of Clinton, Tennessee, where the Oak Ridge National Observatory is located.

Since 1959, when French President Charles de Gaulle proposed France's own atomic energy program, it has become the center of French atomic energy research for 50 years!

"Hello Academician Nie, welcome, colleagues from China!" Ronald Vigo, the senior commissioner of the CEA and an important figure in the French ITER, greeted them warmly, "We have prepared a place for you to stay, you can go to the accommodation to put down your luggage and rest for a while, and then I will take you to visit." ”

The cooperation between France and China in related fields has been going on for some time, and it has also helped China to cultivate many useful talents, and since 04 the two sides have established a joint real yàn room, also known as the real yàn room without walls, which has further deepened the cooperation between the two sides in this field. There were also many people in Xihe's plan who had worked here, but unfortunately Lu Qiujian was afraid that they would have loopholes, so he didn't send them over.

After coming to the room for a short rest, Ma Yang followed Academician Nie and others to start a visit in Kadarasher accompanied by Mr. Bigo, where they first went to the real yàn room without walls to learn about the latest research results of scientists from the two countries, and then went to other real yàn rooms of the CEA to have an enthusiastic exchange with their French counterparts.

It wasn't until the afternoon that Gobi took them to the periphery of the international thermonuclear reactor under construction, and introduced, in the tone of Gaulic pride, "Gentlemen, this is the site of the construction of the world's largest controlled fusion reactor!" (To be continued). )

PS: Ah, iter's information is so hard to find!